Top Pentagon officials are floating an idea to put elite special operations forces under CIA control in Afghanistan after 2014, sources told The Associated Press.
The plan is one of several possible scenarios being considered and has not yet been presented to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the White House, or the relevant congressional oversight committees.
If the plan were adopted, the U.S. government would be able to officially say that there are no more troops in Afghanistan, because once the special operations teams are assigned to CIA control they become spies. This would obviously hinder any potential for accountability and transparency, since activities and funding would become classified and journalists or other forms of oversight would not be welcomed.
Their plan of expanding the role of U.S. special operations forces in Afghanistan in 2014 and beyond has been around for a while. The idea is to keep the occupation going at a smaller scale with elite forces so that the Obama administration can pretend they kept their promises about a withdrawal in 2014.
Pentagon spokesman George Little denied the idea is being discussed. “Any suggestion that such a plan exists is simply wrong,” Little said Saturday. “United States special operations forces continue to work closely with the intelligence community to confront a range of national security challenges across the world.”
But the AP’s sources maintained the idea was being considered. And truthfully, it wouldn’t be a drastic change from current policy. The Obama administration has increased the use of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) forces around the world, most notably in Africa where U.S. military interventions occur mostly in the shadows.
According to a recent Congressional Research Service report, JSOC forces “reportedly conduct highly sensitive combat and supporting operations against terrorists on a world-wide basis.” “Without the knowledge of the American public,” writes historian Nick Turse, “a secret force within the U.S. military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world’s countries. This new Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has never been revealed.”
I wonder how many of these JSOC assassins/psychopaths are donating to Ron Paul's campaign. I am being sarcastic, of course.
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Really, really, really bad idea.
Petraeus' Praetorian Guard is getting larger?
If we pull most of the real troops out and leave just the Special Ops there, they won't have enough logistics to operate. It's not like the good old days when the Special Ops troops in 2002 had assistance from friendly Afghans. It would wind up like Iraq, where all those thousands of bureaucrats and their private security guards remain basically under seige at the embassy.
An entirely predictable post-9/11 (inside job) outcome: With the US military marginalized (destroyed), corporate contractors controlling the troops (mostly JSOC), the ATCs, the drones, the nukes, the space-based weaponry, any and all potential countervailing powers to the NWO are now gone. But, since "agent" Raimondo is unwilling, unable, or to see if the obvious, logical outcomes of the 9/11 attacks, he will continue to be "surprised" by the continue downward march to the NWO global police state.